Dan Schweiker

Co-Founder & Co-Chairman

Current Community & Professional:

1997 to 1998 Board Member, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
1994 to 2000 Former Board Member, Teach For America/Arizona (Founding Board Chair, 1996 - 2000)
2000-Present Honorary Community Champion -Teach For America/Arizona
1995 to 2004 Former Board Member, Children’s Action Alliance (President, 1997-1999)
1994 to 2000 Former Board Member Business Volunteers For The Arts/Phoenix (President 1996-1997)
1986 to 1993 Former Board Member, Phoenix City Club (President, 1990)
1987 to 1997 Former Board Member, Phoenix Day Child Development Center (Board Chairman, 1990-1991)
1998-Present Board Member Scottsdale Convention & Visitor’s Bureau
1986 to 1990 Former Board Member, Phoenix Local Development Corporation (President, 1989)
2002 to 2006 Former Member Maricopa Association of Governments Transportation Policy Comm. (MAG TPC)
1998 to 2008 Town Council Member Town of Paradise Valley Arizona. (Vice Mayor 1998-2004)
2002-Present Board Member Friends of Public Radio Arizona Vice Chair 2009-2010
2008-Present Advisory Board member Audrey’s Angels
2008- Board Member The Williams Institute for Ethics & Management
1980-Present Member World Affair’s Council

Awards:

Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, Small Business of the Year [Sterling Award] (1996)
Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Small Businessperson of the Year (1994)
Entrepreneur of the Year Award® (1993)

Dan Schweiker was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to Arizona in 1978. He is married to Suzanne Smith, President of Suzanne Smith Interior Design Ltd. Quote: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo